Nation: MEN OF THE YEAR

SO it seemed to Christopher Columbus in 1500. In the closing days of
1968, all mankind could exult in the vision of a new universe. For all
its upheavals and frustrations, the year would be remembered to the end
of time for the dazzling skills and Promethean daring that sent mortals
around the moon. It would be celebrated as the year in which men saw at
first hand their little earth entire, a remote, blue-brown sphere
hovering like a migrant bird...